Word: curleyism
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...Jacobson comes alive and displays a brilliance equalled only by one other actor. The sensitivity which Jacobson finally brings to the play is masterfully manipulated in his physical movements. The delicate stroking of his fingers and the emotional outbursts at the deaths of his pet dog and Curley's wife show promising talent. However, the part is so uniquely difficult that few, if any, actors could master it completely...
...play's second shortcoming revolves around several of the actors. Ralph Pochoda, as George, has a formidable part. He tries hard but either acts too strongly or too weakly. Portraying Curley is Nelson Denis who should be driving a motorcycle with Hell's Angels. His acting is enjoyable though he should have saved it for West Side Story. Curley's wife, Susan Ruel, is attractive yet much too nice and not bitchy enough for her part. Finally, Ken Rosenfield, the Boss, not only looks out of place but acts the same...
JAMES MICHAEL CURLEY'S second-youngest son came to my grandfather's wake. You may remember the caricature of this son in The Last Hurrah, showing up in white tie at his father's campagn headquarters the night the old man lost his last election, breezing in from a night on the town to find that his father had died. The fictional son was quite the bon vivant a happy-go lucky playboy without a care in the world. The real life model never quite lived up to his fictional counterpart...
...largely comic (in an interesting reversal of the expected sex roles, the men in the show are the more sentimental), they must carry the weight of the dated trappings. Bernadette Peters (who's made quite a name for herself in other bouts with nostalgia like Dames at Sea and Curley McDimple) is most successful in breaking from type. She's wonderful as a kind of Tillie the Toiler suddenly gone hot on sex. She's got a voice with which you wouldn't care to argue and a way with inflections that almost makes words unnecessary. Fresh out of Company...
...atmosphere was somewhere between the Democratic National Committee and the American Legion Boys' State. The crowd was young, almost all high school and college students. But the atmosphere owed more to Honey Fitz and James Michael Curley than to Gene McCarthy and the Peace and Freedom Party: Larry DiCara is not the new politics. He is a new face who has learned to practice the old politics very, very well...